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>The <SPAN
CLASS="TYPE"
>money</SPAN
> type supports US-style currency with 
fixed decimal point representation.
If <SPAN
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>Postgres</SPAN
> is compiled with USE_LOCALE 
then the money type
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 <I
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><SPAN
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>numeric</SPAN
>
should eventually replace the money type. It has a
fully implemented syntax but currently 
(<SPAN
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 support only a small range of precision and/or range values 
and cannot adequately substitute for the money type.</P
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